Assignment: The Influence Of Alcohol In The Body

Assignment: The Influence Of Alcohol In The Body
Assignment: The Influence Of Alcohol In The Body
What is the influence of alcohol in the body? Please be specific and give at least 2 influences, ie influence in the GI tract, etc. Please be sure to enumerate these (so there is no confusion), ie. (1) and (2). Please also give 2 examples of alcohol’s damage. Talk about at least 1 short-term effect and 1 long-term effect. Lastly, give your views on alcohol consumption and why you feel the way you do. You must complete at least 10 sentences and respond to 2 of your classmates to receive credit.
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Although alcohol can make people feel joyful, pleasant, and sociable for a short time, excessive or chronic, long-term drinking can develop to alcohol dependence or addiction, which is officially known as an alcohol use disorder.
Chronic alcohol consumption has also been linked to various cognitive and mental health difficulties, such as learning and memory problems, as well as worsening or causing major mental health problems including sadness and anxiety.
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Alcohol has an impact not only on the mind but also on the physical.
Even moderate drinking appears to increase a person’s overall risk of death from a variety of causes, including some types of cancer and certain types of cardiovascular disease.
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This article will explain how alcohol affects your physical health and answer a number of frequently asked questions concerning alcohol’s short- and long-term effects on the body.
Alcohol’s Short-Term Effects on the Body
Your body reacts in various ways when you consume even a modest amount of alcohol:
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Alcohol alters mood, delays reflexes, and affects balance by slowing down the chemicals and routes your brain utilizes to manage your body.
It can also cause issues with learning, memory, and sleep.
Alcohol raises your heart rate and dilates your blood vessels, allowing more blood to flow to your skin (which makes you feel warm), but this heat escapes through your skin, causing your body temperature to drop once it has risen.
Alcohol is first broken down in the stomach, which stimulates the production of digestive juices.
Alcohol also irritates the small intestine and colon, where it is broken down and absorbed, and it can slow down the usual passage of food through them, causing abdominal pain, bloating, and diarrhea.
Alcohol dehydrates the body, which can cause problems with the kidneys and the body’s capacity to manage fluids and electrolytes.
Hormones that affect renal function are also disrupted.
The liver, which filters circulating blood and eliminates and destroys harmful chemicals, including alcohol, is where most of it is processed.
The liver can withstand a certain amount of alcohol, but it can become strained to the point of irreparable damage if a person continues to drink.
Binge drinking, or consuming a lot of alcohol in a short amount of time, puts your body and internal organs under a lot of stress (and can result in feeling a hangover following a drinking session).
Headaches, severe dehydration, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and indigestion are all symptoms of excessive alcohol consumption.
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Excessive drinking, even on a single occasion, raises the chance of negative heart effects.
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Cardiomyopathy is a condition in which your heart muscle has difficulty pumping blood.
An erratic heartbeat is known as arrhythmias.
Blood pressure that is too high.
Stroke.
Alcohol poisoning can also be caused by excessive alcohol consumption on a single occasion.
This can happen when your body is overburdened by the amount of alcohol you’ve consumed and is no longer able to metabolize it properly.
Breathing rate, heart rate, and gag reflex can all be affected negatively.
Severe alcohol poisoning might put you in a coma or possibly kill you.
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